Academic Job Opportunities

Lecturer Part-Time - Temporary

Applications are invited for a Lecturer Part-Time - Temporary position in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington.

This appointment is for a part-time temporary position, with either a quarterly (September 16 - December 15 for Autumn quarter, December 16 - March 15 for Winter quarter, or March 16 - June 15 for Spring quarter) or a 9-month (September 16 - June 15) service period, depending on departmental needs. 

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Statistics Graders and Tutors

Applications are invited for Graders and Tutors in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington.

These are hourly appointments open to both undergraduate and graduate students. Appointments are made on a quarterly basis. Current pay rates can be found here.

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Research Papers

Aparajithan Venkateswaran, Emilija Perkovic
Published 7/9/2024
We study the problem of restricting Markov equivalence classes of maximal ancestral graphs (MAGs) containing certain edge marks, which we refer to as expert knowledge. MAGs forming a Markov equivalence class can be uniquely represented by an essential ancestral graph. We seek to learn the restriction of the essential ancestral graph containing the…
Vincent Roulet, Atish Agarwala, Jean-Bastien Grill, Grzegorz Swirszcz, Mathieu Blondel, Fabian Pedregosa
Published 7/8/2024

Curvature information -- particularly, the largest eigenvalue of the loss Hessian, known as the sharpness -- often forms the basis for learning rate tuners. However, recent work has shown that the curvature information undergoes complex dynamics during training, going from a phase of…

Michael Pearce, Elena A. Erosheva
Published 6/27/2024
In a traditional analysis of ordinal comparison data, the goal is to infer an overall ranking of objects from best to worst with each object having a unique rank. However, the ranks of some objects may not be statistically distinguishable. This could happen due to insufficient data or to the true underlying abilities or qualities being equal for some objects. In…

Recent News

We are pleased to announce that Statistics Ph.D. student, Oliva McGough, has received a 2025  Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). GRFP recognizes…
We are proud to announce that Statistics Undergraduate student Elvin Liu has won 3rd prize for his research project titled “A Comparison of Methods for Constructing Population Variance Confidence…
We are thrilled to share that Shreya Prakash, a Statistics Ph.D. student, has been chosen to attend the prestigious 2025 Rising Stars Workshop at the Oden Institute in Austin, Texas. This esteemed…